Presented to Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, during the UN MDG Summit in New York in September 2010, including a Declaration, Plan of Action and recommendations. This Report refers to broadband as a cluster of concepts,...

This report reviews the overall context of broadband development in ABBMN countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, and Nepal), as well as analysing some priority policy and regulatory issues for broadband deployment. The report provides...

This report considers the measurement aspects of child online protection. For the first time, an attempt has been made to provide an overall statistical framework related to the measurement of child online protection with a particular emphasis on...

This Handbook provides general information on radiometeorology and covers the following topics: physical characteristics of the atmosphere, atmospheric refraction, particle scattering, atmospheric gaseous attenuation and dispersion, hydrometeor...

The objective of the e-Environment Toolkit is to help countries, jurisdictions, communities and organizations, particularly those in the developing world, assess the contribution that information and communication technologies (ICTs) can make to...

This paper on e-government readiness assessment serves as an introduction to the “ITU e-Government Implementation Toolkit”. The Toolkit, to be developed in several modules, will examine key dimensions of the e-government environment to help decision...

This is the first ITU Handbook to provide detailed information on the applied methods, technologies, algorithms, data structure and practical use of frequency and timing signals provided by satellite systems.

The fifth World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC-10) took place in Hyderabad (India) from 24 May to 4 June 2010. The Final Report contains the Hyderabad Declaration, the Conference's contribution to the ITU Strategic Plan for the...

This paper focuses on Tele-Health defined by ITU as “the use of communications and information technology to deliver health and health care services and information over large and small distances” Tele-health is expected to enable transfer of...

ITU's five-year contribution to the WSIS Implementation and Follow-up (2005-2010). This report provides information on the key initiatives and activities carried out by the three sectors of the Union (Standardization, Radiocommunication and the...

This report contains WSIS Action Line Roadmaps. In line with its mandate and the WSIS outcome documents, the ITU continues to play a key role in the WSIS implementation and follow-up process in particular, as the WSIS Action Lines Sole Facilitator...

This Handbook is intended to give the reader an overview of the elements necessary to evaluate the design, implementation and maintenance aspects of an SS No. 7 network. The Handbook is also offered to assist the reader in understanding criteria...

This Handbook provides general information about amateur and amateur-satellite services. It also includes a compendium of existing ITU texts of relevance to amateur and amateur-satellite services. This Handbook is intended to present, in one...

This report highlights the latest ICT developments in the Americas region and presents key statistical indicators for each country. The report also features a regional analysis of the ITU ICT Development Index (IDI) and the ICT Price Basket, two ICT...

The annual Trends in Telecommunication Reform publications are a key part of ITU's effort to explore and amplify the wisdom of policy-makers and regulators in the ICT sector. The 10th edition will look at the delicate balance that regulators need to...

The 9th edition of the ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report (WTDR 2010) focuses on Monitoring the WSIS Targets. The year 2010 marks the midpoint between the 2005 Tunis phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and...